SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed Lola Taylor
R*]?*D*t east of town, Brinkley, Arkansas
Age 71
*My mother was sold five times* She was sold when she was too little
to remember her mother* Her mother was Charity Linnerman* They favored*
She was dark and granny was light colored* My mother didn f t love her
mother like I loved her*
n Granny lived in a house behind the white church (?) in Helena* After
freedom we kept writing till we got in tetch with her* We finally got
granny with us on the Jefferies place at Clarendon*
"A man (Negro) come by and conjured ray mother* She was with Miss Betty
Heed (or Heid) up north of Lonoke* They was my mother's last owners* That
old man made out like she stole things when he stole them his own black self*
He f d make her hide out like she stole things* She had a sweetheart and him
and his wife* She had to live with them* They stole her off from her last
ovaier. Miss Betty Reed* They didn't like her sweetheart* They was going to
rnarry* He bought all her wedding clothes* When she didn't marry him she
let him have back all the weddin f clothes and he buried his sister in them*
This old man was a conjurer* He give my mother a cup of some kind of herbs
and made her drink it* He tole her all her love would go to Henry Deal* He
liked him* He was my papa* Her love sure did leave her sweetheart and go
to my papa* He bought her some nice clothes* She married in the clothes he
got her* She was so glad to let go that old man and woman what conjured her
'way from her white folks to wait on them*
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